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• BoC governor says trade tiff with U.S. will figure in rate decision. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  27-06-2018 23:48 via twitter.com
  BoC governor says trade tiff with U.S. will figure in rate decision.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• City's largest union defends in-house garbage collection after audits reveal more deficits

  27-06-2018 23:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  The city’s largest union is defending the in-house garbage collection contracts after a recent audit revealed another deficit in the trash pickup budgets.
  CUPE Local 503 president Brian Madden wrote to council this week underscoring the benefits of having the downtown collection zone as an in-house operation.
  “Keeping (the downtown zone) in-house has allowed the city to exercise greater immediate control over waste collection services in this difficult to service area,” Ma
  
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• Trade war prompts Mayor Watson to decline U.S. ambassador's party invitation

  27-06-2018 23:33 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson is known for his packed schedule of attending community events, especially ones involving VIPs, but the U.S. ambassador’s annual July 4 party isn’t making the cut this year.
  Watson said he didn’t want to make the snub a big deal, but he acknowledged that he received and declined an invitation to the U.S. Independence Day party, this year hosted by Ambassador Kelly Craft, who was sworn in to the job last August.
  “I politely declined because I’
  
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• Council gives the green light to request for additional funding for more police officers. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  27-06-2018 23:15 via twitter.com
  Council gives the green light to request for additional funding for more police officers. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• Police use Taser on man in Montreal Road arrest

  27-06-2018 23:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police used a Taser to arrest a man after a confrontation involving a baseball bat in Vanier on Tuesday afternoon.
  Police said officers found two men involved in a “verbal and physical confrontation” near the intersection of Montreal Road and Bégin Street. One man was carrying a baseball bat, police said.
  “Officers approached the scene and directed the male to drop the baseball bat using de-escalation techniques,” said police in a statement We
  
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• Council briefs: Hydro bosses skeptical about Ford rate cut, Ottawa Markets eyes revitalization

  27-06-2018 22:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  Hydro Ottawa’s top bosses aren’t sure how premier-designate Doug Ford will cut electricity rates as the Progressive Conservative leader promised during the provincial election campaign.
  Ford promised to cut hydro bills by 12 per cent.
  “I suspect there is no magic bullet,” Hydro Ottawa CEO Bryce Conrad told city council Wednesday while helping to deliver the utility’s annual report. “I’m not completely aware how he’ll get to 12 per cent.”
  Jim
  
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• Council votes to keep working on design for Château Laurier expansion

  27-06-2018 22:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  The drama at city hall over the Château Laurier’s proposed addition should go silent until the next term of council.
  Council on Wednesday voted to have city staff work with the hotel owner, Larco Investments, on another concept that uses more limestone and features more Château-like qualities. Staff can sign off on the final design but they must bring a site plan for political approval, council decided.
  After the council meeting, Mayor Jim Watson defended the decision to hold o
  
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• Fire crews battle blazes on both ends of the city

  27-06-2018 22:18 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa Fire Services crews were kept busy on Wednesday afternoon, as a pair of fires — one in Vanier and another in Kanata — were doused.
  The first, reported around 1:50 p.m., was at a home on Cummings Avenue, where seven occupants live, according to the fire department. The fire was dealt with quickly, and declared under control by 2:04 p.m.
  The Red Cross and Salvation Army were to provide assistance to those displaced residents.
  An investigator was at the scene to determine th
  
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• STORY: Senators assistant GM Randy Lee faces second harassment charge ottawamatters.com/local-news/sen… https://t.co/8zy11I7FoK

  27-06-2018 21:32 via twitter.com
  
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• Past pot conviction won't automatically prevent involvement in cannabis industry ottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/TBWywDJm8y

  27-06-2018 21:22 via twitter.com
  
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• Bike safety operation turns into distracted driving blitz with 18 tickets in two hours

  27-06-2018 21:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  A traffic blitz aimed at ensuring drivers were leaving enough space between themselves and cyclists changed into a blitz on distracted drivers Wednesday afternoon.
  Police were using a bicycle with equipment that can detect whether a passing car is leaving one metre between itself and a cyclist and rode the bike in and around downtown Ottawa streets.
  However, the covert bicycle cop noticed drivers texting or looking at their cellphones while in transit, which quickly led to a flurry of distracted
  
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• Hydro-Québec to lower Ottawa River levels near Pembroke to aid search for swimmer

  27-06-2018 20:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  Hydro-Québec will adjust dam controls to temporarily lower water levels Wednesday to aid the search for a 20-year-old Petawawa man who failed to return to shore after a swim in the Ottawa River five days ago, according to provincial police.
  A Canadian Forces helicopter, emergency response team and members of the military will pitch in to help the OPP’s underwater search and recovery unit, the OPP said in a release.
  Upper Ottawa Valley OPP officers were first dispatched to a set of r
  
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• Bike safety operation turns into districted driving blitz with 18 tickets in two hours

  27-06-2018 20:33 via ottawacitizen.com
  A traffic blitz aimed at ensuring drivers were leaving enough space between themselves and cyclists changed into a blitz on distracted drivers Wednesday afternoon.
  Police were using a bicycle with equipment that can detect whether a passing car is leaving one metre between itself and a cyclist and rode the bike in and around downtown Ottawa streets.
  However, the covert bicycle cop noticed drivers texting or looking at their cellphones while in transit, which quickly led to a flurry of distracted
  
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• Joe Jackson, head of the famous musical clan and father of Michael, has died at 89. ottawamatters.com/world-news/new…

  27-06-2018 20:23 via twitter.com
  Joe Jackson, head of the famous musical clan and father of Michael, has died at 89.ottawamatters.com/world-news/new…
  
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• Reevely: Lots of opportunities for Ford to fix the government, Ontario ombudsman says

  27-06-2018 20:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  Do everything in your power to make sure you aren’t at the government’s mercy, is the message shooting through the Ontario ombudsman’s latest report on Wednesday.
  Paul Dubé doesn’t make the same racket as his predecessor André Marin did but when he tells us what he’s been up to, the accounts are no less damning.
  Two complaints from people on the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP), which helps people who aren’t capable of working, stand out
  
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• 'Canadian Pride' on display at Vanier seniors' home. ottawamatters.com/local-news/res…

  27-06-2018 20:01 via twitter.com
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• Safety comes home for fire department's spokeswoman with van fire

  27-06-2018 19:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa Fire Services’ spokeswoman was walking the fire safety talk even on a day off Wednesday when a carpet cleaners’ van caught fire in her Elmvale-area driveway.
  “Got to practice what I preach,” Danielle Cardinal joked on Twitter.
  She asked the cleaners to call 911 while she grabbed a fire extinguisher (one of two in her home, naturally) and, from a safe distance, put the P.A.S.S. method into practice.
  P is for pull the pin while holding the extinguisher with the
  
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• Gen. Vance orders permanent removal of Vice Admiral Norman from his position

  27-06-2018 19:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Jon Vance has ordered the permanent removal of Vice Admiral Mark Norman from his job as vice chief of the defence staff.
  Norman was technically still vice chief even though Vance suspended him from that job in January 2017 after a series of allegations, still unproven, were made by the RCMP against the senior naval officer.
  The police force claims Norman tipped off Davie shipyards that the Liberal government was going to derail a key navy program involving the Que
  
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• #ottnews #CanadaDay2018 twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  27-06-2018 19:49 via twitter.com
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• Napanee couple accused of bilking senior for 4.5 years

  27-06-2018 19:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  A Napanee couple is facing a number criminal charges after the OPP says an elderly man was the victim of fraud for more than four-and-a-half years.
  The OPP discovered the fraud while investigating a large arson investigation that involves one of the accused. The two cases are not related.
  The provincial force said that their investigation revealed that the man and woman were defrauding the elderly man by issuing non-sufficient fund cheques and making and issuing fictitious invoices to obtain mon
  
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• Trucker charged with careless driving in crash on Highway 401 near Cambridge, On. ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…

  27-06-2018 19:30 via twitter.com
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• Quebec's police watchdog identifies Ottawa man in June 21st fatal incident near Casino Lac Leamy. ottawamatters.com/police-beat/ot…

  27-06-2018 19:18 via twitter.com
  Quebec's police watchdog identifies Ottawa man in June 21st fatal incident near Casino Lac Leamy.ottawamatters.com/police-beat/ot…
  
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• Glavin: Tough Canadian sanctions against Myanmar have hit a wall. Why?

  27-06-2018 19:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  When Canada joined the United Kingdom and the United States last October in adopting a new and innovative international mechanism to isolate and quarantine globetrotting police-state thugs and their dirty money, hopes were high. But so far, the Justice for Victims of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act, more commonly known as the Magnitsky law, appears to be gathering dust.
  Canada’s adoption of the law, which allows the federal government to freeze the assets of human rights abusers, was a rare
  
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• Little Ray's Reptile Zoo is moving to Sarsfield

  27-06-2018 19:05 via ottawacitizen.com
  Long a mainstay for kids and parents, Little Ray’s Reptile Zoo will shed its skin this fall with a move from its long-time Bank Street location to a facility in Sarsfield in Ottawa’s rural east end.A “for rent” sign is up on its current location at 5305 Bank St., near Greely.“It’s a very exciting time for us and we are super happy to be getting our own building,” according to an e-mail from the private zoo and animal rescue owned by Paul and Sheri G
  
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• Ottawa Senators assistant GM Randy Lee faces new harassment charge

  27-06-2018 17:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa Senators assistant GM Randy Lee has been charged with a new count of harassment stemming from his May 31 arrest in Buffalo after a hotel shuttle driver complained of unwanted sexual advances.
  The new charge — harassment in the second degree — was filed in Buffalo city court on Monday and Lee, 56, is scheduled to be arraigned on the fresh charge July 6. Lee’s previous charge was also harassment in the second degree.
  The additional charge — a violation and not a crim
  
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• Ottawa man killed in crash with moose near North Bay

  27-06-2018 17:18 via ottawacitizen.com
  North Bay OPP has identified a 36-year-old Ottawa man as the person who died when a car collided with two moose Tuesday night.
  Denis O’Neil was fatally injured in the crash, which happened at about 10:15 p.m. on the westbound Highway 17 in Bonfield Township east of the city.
  The collision closed a stretch of Highway 17 from Highway 94 to Highway 531 until about 2:38 a.m. while the technical traffic collision investigators examined the scene.
  Police have urged motorists to be careful i
  
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• Coming up at 11: Professor Elliot Tepper joins @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  27-06-2018 17:00 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11: Professor Elliot Tepper joins @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Fire safety comes home for department's PIO with van fire

  27-06-2018 16:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa Fire Services’ spokeswoman was walking the fire safety talk even on a day off Wednesday when a carpet cleaners’ van caught fire in her Elmvale-area driveway.
  “Got to practice what I preach,” Danielle Cardinal joked on Twitter.
  She asked the cleaners to call 911 while she grabbed a fire extinguisher (one of two in her home, naturally) and, from a safe distance, put the P.A.S.S. method into practice.
  P is for pull the pin while holding the extinguisher with the
  
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• Denley: A jolt of reality for the electric car industry

  27-06-2018 16:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  It is difficult to persuade consumers to buy a product they don’t want, but that doesn’t stop government and its agencies from trying to jumpstart the electric car industry. The Ontario government has been throwing subsidies at electric cars since 2010, with its latest program offering up to $14,000 in rebates. It also spent $20 million installing public charging stations. Despite that, electric cars make up about one per cent of sales.
  The provincial subsidy is almost certain to end
  
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• Follow @StaySaif for the latest from Ottawa city council. #ottnews twitter.com/StaySaif/statu…

  27-06-2018 16:39 via twitter.com
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• Coming up at 10:30: Former Hill staffer Paul Wernick joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss the need for change when it… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  27-06-2018 16:29 via twitter.com
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• Mission accomplished: Bluesfest killdeer's 'bluesnest' reaches new site

  27-06-2018 15:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  Mission accomplished and fingers crossed.
  In an operation that puts a human house move to shame, a killdeer nest containing four eggs has been moved about 25 metres to a safer spot on the Ottawa Bluesfest site, from its original spot smack-dab in the middle of LeBreton Flats.
  Beginning at about 5 p.m. Tuesday, Woodlands Wildlife Sanctuary executive director Monika Melichar of Minden, Ont. painstakingly took each of the killdeer eggs from their nest and placed them in a custom-built nest and
  
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• Coming up on the 10 O'Clock talk: @DerickFage, @AGMacDougall and @JLMadigan join @_MarkSutcliffe 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  27-06-2018 15:58 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the 10 O'Clock talk:@DerickFage, @AGMacDougall and @JLMadiganjoin @_MarkSutcliffe 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 9:50: David Jeanes with @HeritageOttawa joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss the Chateau Laurier redesig… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  27-06-2018 15:48 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:50: David Jeanes with @HeritageOttawa joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss the Chateau Laurier redesig… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Success at LeBreton Flats Wednesday as the Killdeer nest is moved from the Bluesfest mainstage site #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  27-06-2018 15:39 via twitter.com
  Success at LeBreton Flats Wednesday as the Killdeer nest is moved from the Bluesfest mainstage site #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• Coming up at 9:30: @mclomedia joins @_MarkSutcliffe to talk Trump and Ford. 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1 https://t.co/bPtUkVF3Wd

  27-06-2018 15:28 via twitter.com
  
  Coming up at 9:30:@mclomedia joins @_MarkSutcliffe to talk Trump and Ford.📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1 https://t.co/bPtUkVF3Wd
  
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• Coming up at 9:15: @Stu_McGinn joins @_MarkSutcliffe for the latest on the @ottawabluesfest bird. 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  27-06-2018 15:13 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:15: @Stu_McGinn joins @_MarkSutcliffe for the latest on the @ottawabluesfest bird. 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• House Works: Brick and stone are environmentally beneficial homebuilding choices

  27-06-2018 15:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  Everyone makes choices in life, and many of these choices affect the environment. The funny thing is, choices don’t always align with the values people claim to hold. It’s surprising how often this disconnect happens. I know more than one person who talk like they care about the environment, yet they burn household garbage in plastic bags in a smoldering barrel in their backyard. A health food store owner I know tells me that beef jerky sales in his big city store triple when the pro
  
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• House fire smokes out pot production in Kaladar area

  27-06-2018 15:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  When Napanee OPP officers responded to a house fire in Addington Highlands last week they found more than flames, seizing a “large” quantity of pot and charging two people with production.
  After spotting marijuana in the home on Upper Flinton Road in the early morning of June 20, officers from the detachment teamed up with the Napanee, Frontenac and Prince Edward County street crime unit to execute a search warrant.
  Officers seized marijuana, ground marijuana and paraphernalia used t
  
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• Munster farmhouse uninhabitable after $500,000 fire

  27-06-2018 14:38 via ottawacitizen.com
  A fire investigator is examining the cause of a blaze at a Munster farmhouse Tuesday night but it was clear that two residents won’t be able to return home, the fire department reports.
  Damage is pegged at $500,000.
  The residents returned their home at 7783 Bleeks Rd, west of Munster Road at 7:20 p.m. and called 911 when they spotted smoke.
  Their dog was thankfully safe in another building as the fire extended from the basement of the farmhouse to the first and second floors.
  Firefighters
  
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• Quebec police watchdog IDs man killed while fleeing Gatineau officer

  27-06-2018 13:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  Quebec’s police watchdog has released the identity of a man killed June 21 when he was struck by a car while fleeing Gatineau police on foot.
  The Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes said coroners identified the man as Zachary Fairbairn, 28, of Ottawa.
  The agency said no further information would be released.
  Preliminary investigation shows police were called to the Casino du Lac-Leamy at about 1:20 a.m. June 21 after receiving reports that a man was allegedly attempting to
  
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• Risk of heavy thunderstorms Wednesday then heat is on

  27-06-2018 13:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  Thunderstorms may pummel the region Wednesday before what weather watchers warn will be an “extreme heat event” arrives for the Canada Day long weekend.
  Environment Canada issued a special weather statement early Wednesday predicting that showers and thunderstorms will hit parts of eastern Ontario bringing local rainfall amounts in the 20 mm to 40 mm range “with higher amounts possible under the heaviest storms.”
  Then, starting Friday or Saturday, the hot and humid a
  
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• Obituary: Visionary editor Derek Ingram helped journalists all over the developing world – and in Canada too

  27-06-2018 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Derek Ingram had the appearance of a stereotypical English gentleman – tall, posh-sounding, unfailingly courteous, and always slightly rumpled. Hardly the image of a radical, futuristic thinker – which, in a low-key and determined manner, he most surely was.
  He was also a legend among many Canadian journalists who, thanks to his vision, travelled the world as young reporters and developed a sense of the issues and challenges facing developing countries. Ingram died recently in London
  
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• Egan: How to buy a piece of Maj. Gen. Lewis MacKenzie, peacekeeping warrior

  27-06-2018 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Old generals never die, they just fade away piece by piece — going once, twice, gone.
  Retired Maj. Gen. Lewis MacKenzie, now 78, was once the most famous soldier in Canada — maybe he still is. But life went on from his glory days in Sarajevo in 1992, when he commanded a UN peacekeeping force that managed to open the airport for the delivery of humanitarian aid, not to mention polish the country’s reputation as a fair broker in wartime.
  Today he is a widower, standing in the liv
  
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• Two left homeless after fire in Munster destroyed a farmhouse. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  27-06-2018 11:51 via twitter.com
  Two left homeless after fire in Munster destroyed a farmhouse. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• C6 machine-gun shortage requires Canadian Army to carefully manage distribution of weapons

  27-06-2018 08:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  A recent Defence Watch article about the Canadian government considering donating a warehouse of equipment, including C6 general purpose machineguns, to Ukraine prompted a number of angry emails from Canadian Forces personnel. They stated the weapons should be instead provided to the Canadian Forces since units are experiencing a shortage of C6s.
  So Defence Watch asked about the C6 situation and whether there was a shortage of the weapons. Here is the answer:
  “There is no C6 shortage in te
  
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• Concert Review: Terence Blanchard Featuring the E-Collective at the 2018 TD Ottawa Jazz Festival

  27-06-2018 07:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  Terence Blanchard Featuring the E-Collective2018 TD Ottawa Jazz FestivalFirst Baptist ChurchJune 26, 7 p.m.
  Until Tuesday night, when the musicians that I saw at the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival made references to the political and social situation in the U.S., they played it for laughs.
  For instance, at First Baptist Church on Monday night, the British pianist Django Bates said that he had just come from playing in a church at the Rochester International Jazz Festival. Music fans there made a point
  
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• Nest in transit, killdeers not chirping

  27-06-2018 05:13 via ottawacitizen.com
  Onlookers waited behind caution tape with bated breath as Bluesfest’s premature festivalgoers were moved, gingerly, from smack-dab in the middle of LeBreton Flats on Tuesday evening to a slightly more suitable location about 30 metres away.
  Woodlands Wildlife Sanctuary executive director Monika Melichar took each of the four killdeer eggs from their nest and placed them in a custom-built nest and walked away with her fingers crossed.
  After creeping nervously toward the human-built nes
  
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  27-06-2018 02:29 via twitter.com
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• ICYMI: Hot, Hot. Hot for #CanadaDay2018 in the capital. ottawamatters.com/local-news/hea…

  27-06-2018 01:55 via twitter.com
  ICYMI: Hot, Hot. Hot for #CanadaDay2018 in the capital.ottawamatters.com/local-news/hea…
  
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